David Thewlis

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1963-03-20 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As 데이빗 듈리스, David Wheeler, 大卫·休里斯

David Thewlis

Biography

David Wheeler (born 20 March 1963), better known as David Thewlis, is an English actor and filmmaker. He is known as a character actor and has appeared in a wide variety of genres in both film and television. He has received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and nominations for two BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Thewlis made his film debut in Little Dorrit (1987) and acted in the Mike Leigh films Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the latter. He then appeared in films such as Black Beauty (1994), Restoration (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Dragonheart (1996), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He became more widely known to film audiences for his roles as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter franchise (2004–2011) and Ares / Sir Patrick Morgan in Wonder Woman (2017). Other film roles include Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Anomalisa (2015), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), and Enola Holmes 2 (2022). Thewlis' most notable television roles include V. M. Varga in the third season of FX's Fargo (2017), the voice of the Shame Wizard in the Netflix animated sitcoms Big Mouth (2017–present) and Human Resources (2022–present), Christopher Edwards in the HBO miniseries Landscapers (2021), and John Dee in the Netflix drama series The Sandman (2022). His performance in Fargo earned him nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.

Known For

Actor

Sherlock & Daughter

as Sherlock Holmes

2025
2024
KAOS

as Hades

2023
The Artful Dodger

as Norbert Fagin

2022
The Amazing Maurice

as Boss Man / Rat King (voice)

2022
2022
The Sandman

as John Dee

2022
Human Resources

as Memory Bank Manager (voice)

2022
Human Resources

as Lionel St. Swithens (voice)

2021
Val

as Self (archive footage)

2021
2021
Landscapers

as Christopher Edwards

2020
2020
2020
Barkskins

as Claude Trepagny

2019
The Feed

as Lawrence Hatfield

2018
The Mercy

as Rodney Hallworth

2017
2017
Wonder Woman

as Sir Patrick / Ares

2017
Big Mouth

as Shame Wizard (voice)

2015
Anomalisa

as Michael Stone (voice)

2015
Regression

as Professor Kenneth Raines

2015
Macbeth

as Duncan

2015
An Inspector Calls

as Inspector Goole - The Inspector

2015
Legend

as Leslie Payne

2015
Queen & Country

as Sargeant Major Bradley

2014
The Theory of Everything

as Dennis Sciama

2014
Stonehearst Asylum

as Mickey Finn

2014
Sunday Roast

as Dick Puck

2014
Fargo

as V.M. Vargas

2013
The Fifth Estate

as Nick Davies

2013
2013
RED 2

as The Frog

2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2011
War Horse

as Lyons

2011
The Lady

as Michael Aris

2011
Anonymous

as William Cecil

2011
2010
2010
Mr. Nice

as Jim McCann

2010
Athena

as Chuck

2009
2007
2006
The Omen

as Keith Jennings

2006
Basic Instinct 2

as Roy Washburn

2006
The Street

as Joe Jennerson / Harry Jennerson

2005
The New World

as Wingfield

2005
All the Invisible Children

as Jonathan (segment "Jonathan")

2005
Kingdom of Heaven

as Hospitaler

2003
Little Wolf's Book of Badness

as Mr. Twister (voice)

2003
Timeline

as Robert Doniger

2003
Cheeky

as Harry Sankey

2002
2002
Dinotopia

as Cyrus Crabb

2002
Hamilton Mattress

as Hamilton Mattress (voice)

2002
Dinotopia

as Cyrus Crabb

2001
Goodbye Charlie Bright

as Charlie's Dad

2000
Endgame

as Clov

2000
Gangster No. 1

as Freddie Mays

2000
The Miracle Maker

as Judas Iscariot (voice)

1999
Love Story

as Dealer

1998
Divorcing Jack

as Dan Starkey

1998
The Big Lebowski

as Knox Harrington

1998
Besieged

as Jason Kinsky

1997
Seven Years in Tibet

as Peter Aufschnaiter

1997
American Perfekt

as Santini

1996
DragonHeart

as King Einon

1996
James and the Giant Peach

as Earthworm (voice)

1995
Restoration

as John Pearce

1995
Total Eclipse

as Paul Verlaine

1994
Black Beauty

as Jerry Barker

1994
Dandelion Dead

as Oswald Martin

1993
Naked

as Johnny

1993
The Trial

as Franz

1993
Frank Stubbs Promotes

as Mike Bence

1992
Damage

as Detective

1992
Black and Blue

as Crematorium Attendant

1992
1991
Afraid of the Dark

as Locksmith / Tom Miller

1991
1991
Filipina Dreamgirls

as Tim Shanks

1991
Skulduggery

as Tony

1991
Prime Suspect

as James Jackson

1990
Life Is Sweet

as Nicola's Lover

1989
Resurrected

as Kevin Deakin

1988
Vroom

as Ringe

1987
Little Dorrit

as George Braddle

1987
1987
Road

as Joey

1987
1986
The Singing Detective

as Second Soldier

Writer

2014
Sunday Roast

as Writer

2003
Cheeky

as Writer

1995

Director

2003
Cheeky

as Director

1995